Project Grant 2300156
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program awarded Arizona State University $213,831 under a Project Grant to develop a new type of Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (HRIS) technology. The HRIS will be designed to sense incident waves, deduce information about user and transmitter directions, and reconfigure its reflection patterns accordingly. This will enable the implementation of a smart and autonomous wireless propagation environment that can redirect signals, mitigate...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award for $499,462 aims to explore and study an innovative solution to power future mobile machine-to-machine (M2M) Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. The objective is to develop a microsystem that enables direct coupling of electromagnetic waves to a resonant piezoelectric transformer for efficient wireless RF energy harvesting. Key products and services to be delivered include: Demonstration of a novel...
- This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $100,333 to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to develop smart surfaces capable of adaptively modifying wireless channels. The goal is to unlock the full potential of wireless networks by manipulating the propagation environment to achieve greater spatial multiplexing and coverage for massive numbers of devices and exponential growth in data...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate ($400,000) supports the development of smart radio environments using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces to improve millimeter-wave communications. Specifically, the University of Utah will create a modular radio hardware prototype capable of precise phase control at millimeter-wave frequencies. They will also develop advanced signal processing algorithms for practical reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems has awarded a $343,324 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research to develop "Perfect Electromagnetic Teleporting Metasurfaces" - a new class of conformal metasurface devices capable of routing electromagnetic energy around building corners to enhance 5G/6G...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop a groundbreaking broadband probe-based RF and microwave measurement system. This novel technology enables highly localized, non-invasive characterization of the electromagnetic response of receiving systems, representing a significant advancement in electromagnetic measurement capabilities. The proposed probe can precisely...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded $280,000 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation on September 1, 2025, for a collaborative research project titled "Rethinking Wireless Channel Through the Lens of Radiance Field." This three-year project, concluding August 31, 2028, develops an innovative modeling framework that integrates limited radio frequency measurements with spatial priors derived from...
- This $392,098 National Science Foundation award under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program will fund research to establish new theoretical foundations for active metamaterial transmission lines (MTLs) that can control the amplitude and phase of electromagnetic waves. The goal is to develop transformative transmission line technology to address increasing demands for enhanced data capacity, higher spatial resolution, multi-functionality, and smaller circuit and system dimensions in microwave...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $340,000 to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska to conduct research and development on active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (Active-RIS) for sub-terahertz (sub-THz) wireless networks. The key objectives are to: 1) Design and prototype a wideband liquid crystal-based RIS operating at 142 GHz, 2) Develop...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $550,000 over 5 years to Florida A&M University (FAMU) to develop a reconfigurable real-time radio frequency (RF) analog co-processor in a compact, low-cost form factor. The project aims to: Design an RF analog co-processor that can perform configurable mathematical operations directly on electromagnetic waveforms, reducing computational load in digital signal processing. Develop a film with tunable...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Georgia Tech) to conduct collaborative research on reconfigurable intelligent electromagnetic surfaces using magnetically responsive soft materials. The goal is to develop a new approach to dynamically manipulate electromagnetic waves with a flat aperture, enabling reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) for 5G and beyond wireless systems in outdoor and indoor settings. This transformative research will leverage soft materials and magnetic actuation to achieve programmable, linear, scalable, low-loss, and multimodal reconfiguration of RIS, in contrast to current semiconductor-based technologies. The 3-year project, which began on October 1, 2023, is a collaborative effort between Georgia Tech's mmWave Antennas and Arrays Laboratory and Stanford University's Soft Intelligent Materials Laboratory.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $300.0k | 7/25/23 |